Killing of All Killing of All American Leaders Would Not Be Enough

TEHRAN -- The killing of all American leaders would not be enough to avenge the U.S. assassination of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC)’s top commander General Qassem Soleimani two years ago, a senior Iranian IRGC commander said on Wednesday.
The United States and Iran came close to full-blown conflict in 2020 after Gen. Soleimani’s assassination in a U.S. drone attack at Baghdad airport and Tehran’s retaliation by attacking U.S. bases in Iraq.
“Martyr Soleimani was such a great character that if all American leaders are killed, this will still not avenge his assassination,” senior IRGC Gen. Muhammad Pakpour said.
“We should avenge him by following Gen. Soleimani’s path and through other methods.”
Then-U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration falsely claimed that Gen. Soleimani was targeted for plotting future attacks on U.S. interests and that he had helped coordinate strikes on American forces in Iraq.
Pakpour’s comments came days after U.S. Army General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that he does not support removing Iran’s

Quds Force, an IRGC arm, from a list of foreign terrorist organizations, as demanded by Tehran for the revival of a 2015 nuclear deal.

Trump abandoned the deal under which Iran had agreed to curbs on its nuclear program in return for the lifting of financial sanctions. President Joe Biden aims to restore it but he is refusing to take practical measures to undo Washington’s past wrongs.

Almost a year of talks between Iran and the United States have stalled since March. One of the unresolved questions is whether the United States would remove the IRGC from the terrorist list.

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said on Tuesday that Iran’s future should not be tied to the success or collapse of the Vienna talks.

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Killing of All Killing of All American Leaders Would Not Be Enough